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1 Cent - Victoria Pattern
| Issuer | New Brunswick |
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| Year | 1861 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing laureate and draped bust of Queen Victoria, her hair drawn back and bound with a laurel wreath, with a loose curl falling behind the neck. The portrait is rendered in high relief in the style characteristic of Leonard Charles Wyon. The peripheral legend reads VICTORIA D:G: BRITT:REG:F:D: arranged around the effigy, with the truncation of the bust near the lower rim. |
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| Mintage | 1861 - Proof |
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New Brunswick's 1861 cent patterns were struck in London — almost certainly at the Royal Mint or by a private contractor such as Heaton — as the province evaluated adopting a decimal currency ahead of Confederation. The Ch#NB-1 designation covers a small number of trial pieces that preceded the approved circulation issue, and surviving examples are rare enough that most appear to have remained in institutional or collector hands rather than reaching commerce.
New Brunswick joined Confederation in 1867, making this a short-lived provincial coinage program.